Division for animal mangers



June 5, 1923. 1,457,850

' A. H. NELLER DIVISION FOR ANIMAL MANGERS Filed Feb. 9. 1922 R mvENToR ATTORN EY Patented June 5, 1923 p UNI E fun Sfr;

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Beit known that LALBE'n'r Il.. Nan-LEB, a citizenof the-.United States,l residing-,at Fairfield, inthe county ofyJeifersongand State of Iowa, haa/e, 4V invented `a new-,fand useful'` Improvementv in yBivisions for Ani-A mal Mangers, of which `the' following isa specification.

My; invention relates Vto divisions to? seprarate the manger into separate compartments So'that each'animal may have thefree use of its owncomp'artment and will be preneighbor, or otherwise y interfering" therewith, and 1t consistsof a series ofmembers hinged' independently?to..- `adjacents'@stall frames, y Vand arranged to be'locked and; held y in lowered'. position .a in rthe manger, x to -divident-into tcompartrnents.;fy Also toffbe locked in elevated?position,ftofacilitate cleaning and 'for other yrequire-ments:-. Also yincertainl improvements f in f the details. "ofk 1 .part of vthis speciiication,Fig-.1;is a perspec- .I partitions of v a section ,of animal stalls.

tive of a section 'of animal. stallszand a. manger having division members f embodying the features of'myhinvention. Fig'. {2*.is1 an enlarged view` of a' portion of Ioneioffthe stalll posts and a portion of one of the division members in, lowered npos'ition, 4thgether :with theconnections partially broken away; Fig. I3 vis the same showingthe portion of'thedivision membersl `infie'levated position. Fig. ,Lt-is a horizontalsectionon line Hoof Fig-'2J' -Figs..5,6uandf7 are detail views. of v 1 Referring to the drawing, Avv represents thevnpright'posts,.-B the .top rail and @tlg is the manger curb in lwhieh the-.posts2A `are set, Aand Eis the mangeradjoining the curb. The division membersarerepresented by E andare preferably'niade'ofv heavy sheet metal plates having their lower edges y mating parts, asniost- `plainly-f...shown Figi;

vdivision member, F, ,betweenwthein These ingr-535,173.1{vvl 1, andlisclamped upon .the postI byebzolts l and Ji Tbef portions; of: the @castings through which `.the bolt I passes:- are` extend:

ed. .out some-distance beyond the sides' of the NELLER, or'. rarnrrn'rnyown, Assleivolt To' ann" ilouinpeniihenififnitr ,.1- COMPANY, QFjFAlsFIELQ IOWA ALQORRQMTIONGE cof post. and are preferably-,.providedg with l bosses over which.,theYendsgofirhngeirons are `pivoted, said irons being-heldin: pos-il tion; thereon by f washers L-plaeednongxthe bosses? and through which washers the` bolt I is passed. f

The other ends of the' bfent v in toward; eachother so as toiembfrace the innerends of the: hinge ironsare,fitte-dt; with bolt holes k,to :correspond ":W'ithiv slottechfholes M .1n the-.dl'vfsionf member'- F: throughy which vbolts Nere, passed,f By m'e'ans :ofthe slotted, holes; M the t division fmay be. adj .ustedt lit the transverse contourmotlthe `mange'r' which-may-be'shifted',bylthefvarying thi-'ck'- nesses ofthe manger cur-b iniwlnchthewposts i 'j' vAare set," or'by the` posts being Setdierent" "distances from the inner side ,of'fthecurbnj A L; yTo; hold-the division member yEineleva-ted positionraswingingdogfO .isspivotedwbetween :the f-hinge; irons near: their.; centers, f

gage; a catch Pu ony an` adj acentporton off the hinge casting @Hg 1, This 1 dog :preferably made VIwith l a. VhorizontallyI :en-tended lupper end vhaving'ean opening through ibas-,shown v passedv fthroughzmthisi opening and" falso v through holes; in-i central portions not.l the hinge irons, so the dog willha'n'g in position to automatically engage; the y catch nl) and ih old the division? f'member. .in Aelevatedlp.Osi-` tion. f To'lower `the member the-dogI isfsimply .disengaged from' the .1 catch P in any position a swinging hold-down dog; *,Rz is .pivoted to aportion ofthe hingev :casting'l-l, preferably .below theicatch :Pgby means of a boltor rivet S; so ethe dogwillautomatrcally f vup from ysaid lowered position. Preferably the dog'R is provided withv a downwardly v andv backwardly pointing` projection T, as v shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 6. The pivotedv ends of the hinge irons being held YS/Qlfle distance and loweringthe division member, an open-l ing U forming a hand hold iscut in its free end whereby the operator will have better control of the member than if he had to depend upon grasping the edge of the member in the usual way. The device is ex' tremely simple andeasily operated. All that is necessary to change it from one position to the other is to push the holding dog from its normal holding position and then move the member to the other position when it will be automatically and positively locked in that position by the appropriate dog, and it cannot be shifted from that position until the holding dog is pushed out of the way.

What I claim is:

1. In manger divisions for animal stalls, the combination of a division member adapted to lit the transverse contour ofthe manger', said member being hinged to a portion of'the, stall frame, and adapted to be elevated and lowered thereon, andr pivoted locking means to alternately and. automatically lock the division member in elevated and in lowered position.

2. In manger divisions for animal stalls,

. the combination of a division member adaptautomatically engage the catch and hold the division member in elevated position, and a ed to fit the transverse contour of the manger, a hinge casting connected to a portion ofthe stall frame', hinge irons pivotally secured at one end to the hinge casting, and at the other end secured to a portion of the division member and adj acentl thereto, a catch on the hinge casting, a swinging dog pivoted on the hinge irons and adapted to automatically engage the catchand hold the division member in elevated position, and a second swinging dog pivoted to the hinge iron and adapted when the division member is in lowered position to hold it locked down in that position.

3. In manger divisions for animal stalls, the combination of a division member adapted to fit the transverse contour of the manger, a hinge casting connected to a portion of the stall frame, hinge irons pivotally secured at one end to the hinge casting, and at the other end secured to a portion of the division member and adjacent thereto, a catch on the hinge casting, a swinging dog pivoted on the hinge irons and adapted to hinge casting, a swinging dog pivoted on the hinge irons and adapted to automatically engage the catch and hold the division member in elevated catch,and adapted when the division member is in lowered position to hold it in that position.

5. VIn manger the combination to a division member adapted to fit the transverse contour of the manl ger, a hinge casting connected to a portion of frame, hinge ironspivotally secured at one en d to the hinge casting, and at the the stall other end adjustably secured to a portion of the division member and adjacent thereto, a catch on the hinge casting, a swinging dog pivoted on the hinge irons and adapted to automatically engage the catch and hold the division member in elevated position, anda second swinging dog pivoted to the hinge iron and adapted when the division member divisions for animal stalls,

position, and a second swinging dog pivoted to the hinge iron below the is in lowered position to hold it locked down v in that position.

6. In manger divisions for animal stalls, the combination of a division member adapted to t the transverse contour of the manger, a hinge casting consisting of two parts clamped upon a portion of the stall frame, each having laterally extended mating portions withv an opening there through, bosses on the ends of the extended portions surrounding the opening, pivotally connected at one of their ends to the bosses, and their other ends secured 4to opposite sides of an adjacent portion of the division member, a washer on each of the. bosses outside of the hinge irons, and a bolt passed through the'washers and through the opening in the extended portions of the a pair ofhinge irons c hinge castings, whereby the pivoted ends of ALBERT H. NELLER. i 

